Creating Rosie the Riveter: class, gender, and propaganda during World War II

1. Creation of the myth – The impact of World War II on female employment patterns – Government attitudes toward women workers – The Office of War Information and the magazine industry – The War Advertising Council – The Magazine Bureau – Popular fiction and propaganda – The Womanpower Campaign – 2. Middle-class images of women in wartime – Fiction before Pearl Harbor – The impact of propaganda on romances of the war years – Reconversion – Images of women in advertising – 3. The working-class woman and the recruitment campaign – The confession formula – Women’s changing status during the war and the confession formula – Nonfiction – 4. Class differences in the portrayal of women war workers.